A concern about the future of the Podcast...

[catamount]

I want a tattoo of Chris' face on my face.

Good idea, it will hide your 'Innsmouth Look.'

[Genus Unknown]

Hey now, the Innsmouth look can be very attractive. Just look at Angelina Jolie, with her bulging eyes and frog lips. Mmmmmm...

[Carlo_Nino]

This does appear to be a tangent from the original thread but Genus raises an interesting point here.

Who... dare I ask... carries an "Innsmouth" look?

I always thought Vince Schiavelli

[Raindog]

Well, to me it seems a very friendly look, at least on Vince. On a lady it could be pretty sexy, in an odd way......Or maybe that's just me (Glurp Glurp).....

[Carlo_Nino]

To you sir, I offer... Shelley Duvall.




You put a hook in there and you've caught yourself a denizen of Innsmouth.

[Raindog]

Thanks Carlo, call me Cap'n Obed, as I'd love to catch Shelley in me nets......
    I've just listened to one of the early podcasts and Chris and Chad mention the possibility of doing some podcasts on August Derleth.
    I wonder how popular that would be?
And also, another contender for the Innsmouth look is Phillip Glass.....

[I AM Schenectady]

We tolerate all the sub-par Lovecraft stories because we love the guy. Also, most of those stories contain elements that are still creepy as the echo of a dripping faucet in an almost empty restroom in Penn Station in the wee hours and those pair of feet in the last stall belong to a voice that's softly mumbling rapid-fire about......well, I digress. The point is that bad Lovecraft is still pretty good.

So a podcast dedicated to every last one of his stories works. Will we feel the same about Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, or Frank Belknap Long? I doubt it. However, a selection of the best of the rest of the Cthulu Mythos along with some stories from writers that inspired Lovecraft like Chambers, Bierce, and Machen would be a welcome set of appendices after Haunter of the Dark. Another type of appendix for the geeks among us might be a podcast or two (or ten) dedicated to some of the characters, gods, books/scripts, and aliens. Randolph Carter for example could be discussed at length with reference to multiple stories.

Still, Lackey and Fifer have got to feel up to it. If so, I'll keep listening.

BTW, great calls on Shelley Duvall and Vincent Schiavelli. Total fish-people. I nominate Jeffrey Tambor

and Sam Rockwell:

[Genus Unknown]

I've actually been looking (unsuccessfully) for an Edgar Allan Poe podcast comparable to this one. Poe is, generally speaking, a superior writer, and has loads of good material, so... you know, just sayin'.

[old book]

I just came across Robert W. Chambers's The Gay Rebellion ... someone might have fun with that one I guess. It ahem seems to be about having enough human breeders around after the suffragettes take over. Innsmouth looks... Peter Lorrey? Somehow "Innsmouth Look" got mixed up in my brain with some new wave song once upon a time, "she's got the look ... she's got the look ... of luuuuuuvvv." I can't remember the band, ABC maybe.

As far as sacrifices to the hosts oops I mean contributions of a monetary nature, I like the idea theoretically, but it might not work for me in practice. The Leman Ransoms seem like they do the trick, stick with that for now.

On the future, ecclectic smatterings from other tales of the weird might work. I have to confess I'm a big Poe fan, but over the years I've come to see Lovecraft as even better than Poe, but each is great in his own way.

Regarding tattoos, I'm still a virgin. Please be gentle when Chris's face is applied onto me subdermally. Please use invisible ink as well. Invisible in ultraviolet as well. And if you could you use that ectoplasmic fourth dimensional ink that doesn't have mass, that would be very good. Not that Chris doesn't have a nice mug, as nice a mug as a fellow can have, but I'm rather attached to leaving a clean corpse to conqueror worm and posterity.

[catamount]

I've actually been looking (unsuccessfully) for an Edgar Allan Poe podcast comparable to this one. Poe is, generally speaking, a superior writer, and has loads of good material, so... you know, just sayin'.

It's funny, Genus...I attempted to research this same area a little while back. Chris and Chad have really created a niche here. There are some podcasts that use the material of various Weird writers but I couldn't find any that also do study and analysis of the stories, characters and writer (along with the time period of the writing), such as this podcast. If I were an English teacher, I would give these guys a run for their money...damn this psychology degree, it's friggin' useless!!!!

[Genus Unknown]

I KNOW! It's so frustrating. There's a real audience for this kind of thing, I suspect. I'd subscribe to the Edgar Allan Poe Literary Podcast, the Mark Twain Literary Podcast, or the Ambrose Bierce Literary Podcast in a freaking heartbeat. I could see a Stephen King podcast doing very well too, but there might be more legal issues with that (unless King did them -  that would be cool).

Not saying these are things Chad and Chris should go for, I'm just saying yeah, there's totally a niche for this kind of thing.

[Carlo_Nino]

Totally.  There's a point in Episode 49 at time 28:59 when Chris tells Chad, "I take it as a challenge that we not only need to get through this story but understand it.  This is when the audience really needs us.  We're gonna have to take our listeners by the hands, ya know, get our machetes out and chop through this jungle that is The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath."   

Excellent.

[Chris Lackey]

Totally.  There's a point in Episode 49 at time 28:59 when Chris tells Chad, "I take it as a challenge that we not only need to get through this story but understand it.  This is when the audience really needs us.  We're gonna have to take our listeners by the hands, ya know, get our machetes out and chop through this jungle that is The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath."   

Excellent.

That's really my driving philosophy on these bad stories. This weeks 'Very Old Folk' was a nightmare to get through. But I kept telling myself, 'you took this on. you have to get through it. If not for yourself... for them!'

The Edgar Allen Poe podcast is one we've talked about too. Again, no decisions will be made until we get closer to the end of HPL. I know I've said it before, but the going through a lot of the classics they teach in high school (or used to) has really interested me. Catcher in the Rye, Julius Caesar, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex.... that kinda stuff. Things that I know I really missed a lot on the first (and only, for quite a few) times I read them.

But we'll see.

[hsparks]

There's another fantastic podcast out there that's done in a similar fashion.

The linear story of Napoleon's life - http://napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com/. It's also on iTunes. That and this one are among my favorite podcasts.

The gentlemen who did that podcast did move on, but that's because J. David Markham (http://www.napoleonichistory.com/) has become the President International Napoleonic Society and doesn't have as much time. Although they do interviews with various historians when they get a chance. I do recommend anyone here to check it out and give it a chance by listening to a couple of those episodes.

I'd love for this podcast to move on to readings (maybe with commentary) and more interviews. And like a previous post someone mentioned discussions of letters. I could also see Chad and Chris moving onto another topic and linking the podcast with something else and coming back to it here and there.

[Carlo_Nino]

I'd love for this podcast to move on to readings (maybe with commentary) and more interviews. And like a previous post someone mentioned discussions of letters. I could also see Chad and Chris moving onto another topic and linking the podcast with something else and coming back to it here and there.

This has my vote.
Not sure if I'm ready to make the natural yet logical leap from Lovecraft to Napoleon just yet.
Just sayin'.